—"This idiot thinks he can get the Master's girl!"— yelled one of the thugs cornering Higasa.
—"I-I swear, I don't want anything with her! Why are you doing this to me?"— said Higasa, tied hand and foot to a chair.
—"Relax, buddy, I believe you. But my little friend here doesn't."— said the so-called "Master" the thugs kept referring to, as he pulled a crowbar out of his backpack.
Higasa felt uncontrollable fear. He couldn't move, and a guy twice his size was walking toward him with a weapon. He couldn't understand why this was happening to him. What the thugs had called a "date" had just been a library hangout between friends. Higasa didn't like Mireia, and in his mind, that should've been obvious due to how naturally and calmly they spoke. He couldn't act that way around other girls, not after the trauma he'd suffered as a child.
—"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!"— Higasa screamed after receiving a crowbar blow to the arm.
The torture went on. Higasa took around 40 hits, screaming in pain as his joints shattered and his skin burst open.
—"P-Please, stop."— he whimpered when he saw one of them start recording.
Things got even worse when one of them brought a large tray full of centipedes. The "Master" ordered them to throw Higasa to the ground. Still tied up, he felt the absurd pain of the kicks raining down on him. The guy with the tray opened it and dumped the insects on the floor. They crawled toward Higasa's open wounds and began walking across his body. The sensation was revolting and caused an indescribable burning in his wounds.
—"Mireia deserves better than a useless piece of trash like you."
—"Just look at your face."— said one of the thugs, smashing a mirror into Higasa's face.
—"Your expression is pathetic, dumbass."
Silence spread across the dark room as the Master picked up his backpack again and told his goons to untie Higasa.
—"The pain is so bad I can't even stand... Why? Why!? WHY!? I just wanted to be a good person. I know this is my end but... God, if you're really out there, I want you to know that I hate you. I hate you from the bottom of my heart. Screw you and all your descendants. It must've been fun having me as your toy, huh? You bastard. I curse the whore who gave birth to Jesus. If I could return this pain to someone, I'd give it to that 'Master's' mother."— was Higasa's last thought before he lost consciousness.
They forced Higasa to kneel. The Master made a video call with Mireia.
—"Look, darling. Here's your little stalker. With this, I'll make sure you never have to suffer again, sweetheart."
—"Noooo! Why are you doing this to Higasa?! What did he ever do to you? Please, stop!"— Mireia cried as she saw the brutally injured body of her dear friend.
Through sobs and begging, Mireia desperately pleaded for them to stop.
Bang! — Silence fell like a shroud in the room. The Master's shotgun had gone off straight into Higasa's head. Brain matter splattered across the floor, and his body collapsed into the bloodstained ground.
Mireia screamed, cursing the "Master" through her tears, then said the following words:
—"Higasa, Higasa, Higasa..." — she repeated, crossing her arms on her desk and crying inconsolably.
—"Xavier... you bastard, how could you do this? Your disgusting existence makes me sick. The sight of Higasa's corpse brings back all the beautiful memories I shared with him. And now you've taken away the person I loved the most in my life!"— she said as her voice broke further with each word.
—"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I HATE YOU!"— Mireia screamed, her voice cracked and powerless, before hanging up the call and collapsing in tears at her desk. Her best friend was gone, and her heart was filled with grief and rage.
—"Allen! I never told you to do that! Now the girl I love hates me, and it's all because of your stupid mistake! You disgust me!"— Xavier shouted, punching Allen in the nose—the boy in his gang who had pulled the trigger on the Master's shotgun.
Allen collapsed, struggling to breathe from the blow.
—"I'm sorry, Master... I just thought he disrespected you by stopping his begging."
—"There was no fucking need to kill him for that, you idiot!"
Before the argument could continue, Higasa's lifeless body began to glow with a blinding light.
—"What the hell?!"— they all exclaimed in unison.
Higasa's body started to disintegrate, turning into dust and disappearing completely, leaving only the bloodstain after the dazzling display of light.